When Good Conservation Becomes Good Economics: Kenya’s Vanishing Herds

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When Good Conservation Becomes Good Economics: Kenya’s Vanishing Herds

dc.contributor.author	Desbureaux, Sebastien
dc.contributor.author	Damania, Richard
dc.contributor.author	Scandizzo, Pasquale Lucio
dc.contributor.author	Mikou, Mehdi
dc.contributor.author	Gohil, Deepali
dc.contributor.author	Said, Mohammed
dc.date.accessioned	2019-12-23T21:39:35Z
dc.date.available	2019-12-23T21:39:35Z
dc.date.issued	2019-10-07
dc.description.abstract	It is no exaggeration to state that Kenya’s wildlife has done much to shape the image and development fortunes of the country. Today tourism is among Kenya’s top sources of foreign exchange, dominates the service sector, and contributes significantly to employment, especially in rural areas where economic opportunities are limited. The typical international tourist arrives on a package tour that may include a safari, a visit to the beach, or both. It is safari tourism, however, that generates the most employment and economic activity across the country. But the wildlife that has lured travelers to Kenya by the planeload is in dramatic decline. In the past three decades, the country has lost more than half of its wildlife. Wild herds that once roamed freely across the borders of Kenya and Tanzania have shrunk dramatically in numbers and vanished completely from much of the North. Perhaps most troubling is that recent monitoring of wildlife populations suggests that long-term declines of many of the charismatic species that attract tourists like lions, elephants, giraffes, impalas, and others are occurring at the same rates within the country’s national parks as outside of these protected areas. This report identifies with greater precision the drivers of land conversion from natural habitats to other uses, and examines the extent to which land conversion leads to the extirpation of wildlife and the loss of tourism incomes.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/465881576053357383/When-Good-Conservation-becomes-Good-Economics-Kenya-s-Vanishing-Herds
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/33083
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/33083
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	TOURISM
dc.subject	WILDLIFE PROTECTION
dc.subject	CONSERVATION
dc.subject	WILDLIFE RESERVE
dc.subject	RURAL POVERTY
dc.subject	ROADS
dc.subject	CONSERVANCY
dc.title	When Good Conservation Becomes Good Economics	en
dc.title.subtitle	Kenya’s Vanishing Herds	en
dc.type	Report	en
dc.type	Rapport	fr
dc.type	Informe	es
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okr.crossref.title	When Good Conservation Becomes Good Economics
okr.date.disclosure	2019-12-11
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
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okr.region.administrative	Africa
okr.region.country	Kenya
okr.theme	Environment and natural resource management :: Environmental policies and institutions
okr.topic	Transport::Roads & Highways
okr.topic	Environment::Environmental Protection
okr.topic	Environment::Global Environment Facility
okr.topic	Environment::Tourism and Ecotourism
okr.unit	AFR ENR PM 2 (SAFE2)
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